atone

Significado (Inglés)

  1. (ambitransitive) To make reparation, compensation, amends or satisfaction for an offence, crime, mistake or deficiency.
  2. (obsolete, transitive) To bring at one or at concordance; to reconcile; to suffer appeasement.
  3. (intransitive, obsolete) To agree or accord; to be in accordance or harmony.
  4. (obsolete, transitive) To unite in making.
  5. (proscribed) To absolve (someone else) of wrongdoing, especially by standing as an equivalent.

Frecuencia

C2
Pronúnciase como (IPA)
/əˈtəʊn/
Etimoloxía (Inglés)

From atone (“reconciled”), from Middle English atone, attone, atoon (“agreed”, literally “at one”), equivalent to at + one. Compare Latin adūnō (“I unite, make one”) for the similar formation. Regarding the different phonological development of atone and one, see the note in one.

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